Jarvis Cocker Quotes
The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.
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The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.
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In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connected to him.
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I am performing this role of the artist and this role of the 'negress' coming into a white-box institution. It's kind of a self-appointed role: the self-designated negress.
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There's a thing in the U.K., particularly in London, where it's kind of the idea of subculture and counterculture and the outside and the idea that it's great to be a freak, and the freak always wins. So I think English girls are a lot less scared of being the freak or looking like an idiot.
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I never want my kids to feel like I'm just some housewife who was just kicking it with my husband, because that's not the kind of woman that I am.
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Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.
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A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.
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I had gross morning sickness til about 15 weeks and then gestational diabetes, and most annoyingly, from about week 20, I had pelvis issues, which saw me on crutches for the last five weeks of the pregnancy and has since developed into full-blown Osteitis Pubis and pelvic instability.
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When people say to me, 'You make us proud,' it's heartwarming to hear that.
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I'm not trying to change an image, I'm just trying to make sure that the facts match the image. The facts are basically that I'm a builder. I have not dissembled any company nor split up any companies, nor do I ever buy any companies with that intent.
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My music has shaken hands with the world somehow - it's a beautiful disease, and I'm glad I got it.
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I think the attraction of 'American Idol' is about the basic human nature attitude that is, 'We can put you up there. But we can take you down.'
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A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.
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If I am treated fairly, I like to do things in a fair manner. That is the way I have been all my career. I haven't tried to do things in an underhanded way.
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As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.
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Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.
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I've often gotten the feeling that the only people who have learned from computer assisted instruction are the authors.
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We were raised without movies, theater or music. We had only nature, the hills, the trees. When I got on the set of 'Manon,' I wasn't star-struck because I didn't know what a star was.
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We do not find the Savior using force or coercion to accomplish His purposes.
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The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.
